Improvement in metal ties for cotton-bales



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES AIKEN, OF NATGHEZ, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT lN METAL TIES FOR COTTONl-BALES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 28.014,-datcd May l, 1860.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it knownl that I, JAMES AIKEN, of the city of Natchez, county of Adams, and State oi' Mississippi, have invented a new metal tie for securing pressed cotton or any other material that is compressed in bales or bundles and requiring a tie, so as to prevent the same from coming asunder; and I do hereby'declare that the following is a `full and exact description oi" same.

The nature of my invention consists of a metal plate about ive times longer and onehalf inch wider than the width of the metal hoop to be used. This plate is pierced with two quadrilateral holes vabout a half-inch from each end, and of size sufficient to admit the hoop. Its two ends are bent down at the insides of the holes at obtuse angles, and then iiattened down at the ontsides of the holes in order to assist the passage of the hoop to be tied without bending it. The plate is pierced with one or more holes to receive one-or more rivets, which rivets are also catches. These rivet-catches are formed with two shoulders or projections-one below, to preserve the riveted hoop in its place, and the other on top, to fasten the other end of the hoop through oval holes at its end. As rivets, they fasten one end ofthe hoop and the plate. As catches, they assist to preserve the riveted end of the hoop in its place` and to fasten the other end f. ofthe hoop making the tie. The plate rests 

